New WRI research in Liberia finds that women’s participation in local forest management can improve both their socioeconomic status and the sustainability of forest resources that support local communities’ lives and livelihoods. Yet complex power dynamics, authority and competing interests converge to prevent women from engaging in these decision-making processes. This paper finds that significant social and regulatory change must occur to foster gender and social equity in forest governance.
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by Sarah Sargent, Maria Papadopolou, Laura González, Hans Bakker, Paula den Hartog, Aleyda Carillo, Anne Rosenbarger and Thailynn Munroe - March 2020This paper discusses the data collection, verification, and publication process of a global asset list, the Universal Mill List.
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by Nancy Harris, Thailynn Munroe, Elizabeth Dow Goldman, Christy Slay and Forrest Follett - February 21, 2020 publication
by Ifeoma Collins, Thailynn Munroe, Anne Rosenbarger, Ryan Sarsfield and Caroline Winchester - January 2020This paper discusses the methodology used to produce the Places to Watch Palm and Soy layers on the Global Forest Watch platform.
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by Amy E. Duchelle, Frances Seymour, Maria Brockhaus, Arild Angelsen, Anne M. Larson, Moira Moeliono, Grace Y. Wong, Thu Thuy Pham and Christopher Martius - November 2019This issue brief is based on a 2018 working paper and summarizes the REDD+ experience over the past decade, taking stock of lessons learned from REDD+ implementation to inform future forest-based climate mitigation activities.
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by Rohini Chaturvedi, Craig Hanson, Helen Ding and Frances Seymour - November 2019This working paper is a contribution to the FOLU 2019 report, Growing Better: Ten Critical Transitions to Transform Food and Land Use. The paper answers four questions:
- Why are forests critical to economic development and human well-being?
- What public sector measures could conserve and restore forests?
- Why haven’t these public measures sufficiently worked at scale yet?
- How can one overcome the economic and political economy barriers to these measures?